In February 1997, with the legal right to the Coldcut name back, they released a double pack single " Atomic Moog 2000 " / " Boot the System ", the first Coldcut release on Ninja Tune.

Moog's first wife was Shirleigh Moog ( née Leigh ), a grammar school teacher whom he married in 1958.

The Moog synthesizer was one of the first widely used electronic musical instruments.

Moog created the first voltage-controlled subtractive synthesizer to utilize a keyboard as a controller and demonstrated it at the AES convention in 1964.

The first Moog instruments were modular synthesizers.

In 1971 Moog Music began production of the Minimoog Model D, which was among the first synthesizers that was widely available, portable, and relatively affordable.

In 1953 at age 19, Moog founded his first company, R. A. Moog Co., to manufacture theremin kits.

In 1999, Moog partnered with Bomb Factory to co-develop the first digital effects based on Moog technology in the form of plugins for Pro Tools software.

He also produced, in collaboration with first wife Shirleigh Moog, Mrs. Rockmore's album, The Art of the Theremin.

In 1968, Robert Moog developed one of the first solid-state musical vocoder for electronic music studio of University at Buffalo.

Despite being more of a singer than a musician, Micky purchased one of the first 25 Moog synthesizers, the third Moog Synthesizer ever commercially sold.

Emerson first heard the Moog when a record shop owner played Switched-On Bach for him.

While other artists such as The Beatles and The Rolling Stones had used the Moog in studio recordings, Emerson was the first artist to tour with one.

Emerson was the headliner of both the first and third Moogfest, a festival held in honour of Robert Moog at the B. B.

The Doors became the first group to use the Moog synthesizer on a pop record on 1967's " Strange Days ".

The first movie to use music made with a ( Moog ) synthesizer was the James Bond film On Her Majesty's Secret Service in 1969.

Jazz composer and bandleader Sun Ra used one of the first Minimoogs, a prototype lent him by Moog in 1969: " We loaned it to him and Sun Ra ’ s way of working is that when you loan him something you don ’ t expect to see it back.

Highlights of these include 1975's Timewind, 1976's Moondawn ( his first album to feature the Moog synthesiser ), 1979's Dune, and 1995's double-album In Blue ( which featured one long track called Return To The Tempel with electric guitar contributions from his friend Manuel Göttsching of Ash Ra Tempel ).

As the group evolved, McLaughlin adopted what became his trademark: a double neck guitar ( six-string and twelve-string ) which allowed for a great degree of diversity in musical textures, and Hammer became one of the first to play a Mini Moog synthesizer in an ensemble, which enabled him to add more sounds and solo more freely, on the guitar and the violin.

He played for the Oilers for 10 seasons, where he teamed up first with Andy Moog then Bill Ranford to form one of the most formidable goaltending tandems in history, winning the Stanley Cup four times in five seasons ( 1983-84 through ' 87-88 ).

The Fairlight CMI was the first sampling synthesizer, while the Synclavier was originally an FM synthesizer, not adding sampling synthesis until the 1980s.

In 1980, Yamaha eventually released the first FM digital synthesizer, the Yamaha GS-1, but at an expensive retail price of $ 16, 000.

The New Wave era of the 1980s first brought the digital synthesizer to the public ear.

The first electric synthesizer was invented in 1876 by Elisha Gray.

The first synthesizer to run directly on a host computer's CPU was Reality, by Dave Smith's Seer Systems, which achieved a low latency through tight driver integration, and therefore could run only on Creative Labs soundcards.

The first music synthesizer workstations from Ensoniq, the ESQ-1 as well as SQ-80, used one 68B09E as their main CPU.

Vapor Trails marked the first studio recording not to include a single synthesizer, organ or keyboard part since the early 1970s.

* 1973 – Roland SH-1000: Japan's first commercial keyboard synthesizer.

* 1975 – Roland System-100: Roland's first attempt at a modular synthesizer.

* 1976 – Roland System-700: Roland's first professional-quality modular synthesizer.

* 1977 – Roland GR-500: Roland's first commercial guitar synthesizer.

* 1978 – Roland Jupiter-4: Roland's first self-contained polyphonic synthesizer.

* 1982 – Roland Juno-6: Roland's first synthesizer with digitally controlled oscillators.

* 1987 – Roland D-50: One of the popular digital synthesizers in late 1980s ; Roland's first all-digital synthesizer implementing its Linear Arithmetic synthesis ( a form of sample-based synthesis combined with subtractive synthesis ).

* 1991 – Roland SC-55 Sound Canvas: The world's first General MIDI synthesizer.

* 1992 – Roland DJ-70: A DJ sampling music workstation and synthesizer keyboard that featured the first scratch wheel pad.

* 1996 – Roland MC-303 Roland's first non-keyboard drum machine, sample-based synthesizer, and sequencer combination bearing the now-generic term Groovebox.

* 1997 – Roland JP-8000: Roland's first virtual analog synthesizer.

* 2006 – Roland SH-201: Roland's first affordable analog modeling synthesizer.

The bass synthesizer music eventually replaced the original standard sitcom music by Jep Epstein when it was played again after the first broadcast " The Seinfeld Chronicles ".

) His performance on the Monkees song " Daily Nightly " ( written by Michael Nesmith ) from the LP Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd. was the first use of a synthesizer on a rock recording.